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Alaskan Tyler Beck describes growing up in North Pole, Alaska, with it’s 42 ft tall statue of Santa, candy cane light poles, Santa’s Workshop, and a man legally named Kris Kringle sitting on the town council. He remembers answering letters written to Santa as an assignment in elementary school.

Ambassador Tariq Aqrawi remembers the Scotsman who lived in Akre for a brief period in the 1950s, who dressed his whole family in Kurdish clothes and spoke the native dialect. He linked this Mackenzie to a bookshop in Baghdad that sold banned Kurdish books.